Eight dead, including five foreigners, in Tripoli hotel attack - official

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - At least eight people, including five foreigners, were killed during an attack by gunmen against a luxury hotel in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Tuesday, a security official told local television. Mahmoud Hamza, director of Libya's special deterrence force, told al-Naba television that five foreigners, including two women, as well as a security officer and two of the gunmen, died in the attack on the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli. He did not give the nationalities of the foreigners. (Reporting by Ahmed Elumami; WSriting by Patrick Markey; Editing by Larry King)